Welcome

This is the first post in what promises to be many throughout the semester.

I like to consider myself a relatively seasoned blogger having discovered them about 2 years before their mainstream introduction in the months before the 2004 election. For those curious about what I've written in the past, my (now dormant) solo blog is The Urban Empire and currently, I am a writer for the popular group blog (averaging around 2,000 unique hits a day), Race 4 2008.

I don't consider myself to be a partisan when it comes to politics. Perhaps it's because I've been born and raised in Wisconsin, a state that has a long and storied history of politicians that have been on the leading edge of change in their respective parties, for good and bad; from "Fighting Bob" LaFollette, Joesph McCarthy, Tommy Thompson and Russ Feingold.